KITCHEN??

so we have made the kitchen liveable for now, but it screams for some updating, the center cook island is small, awkward, and we need more storage space. The 1959 original cabinets are redwood which unfortunatly is sagging on center island, so pots and pans all fall towards the center. Originally, they had these old chipboard sliders for all the cabinetry and they were rotten and moldy... so we took them out and sprayed the entire cabinet bodies white( old dark speckled brown paint was pretty beat up and smelled . We then took 4x8 sheets of 1/8th inch cherry veneer ply and cut them , stained them with zar brazillian cherry, then hand fine sanded and added waterbased zar matt finnish, added some mid grade stainless pulls. they look great, work well enough, but we will be ripping the cabinets out and rebuilding the galley kitchen for more use-ability We had to put in a dishwasher and a fridge. The original sink was pretty gross , sad to lose the old strip stainless banding on porcelain, but it was icky after 50 years...so we put in cheapo stainless sink (ummm can you say "noisy") with high end faucet which will get moved into new countertops eventually . Here's some shots of the originals cabinets etc, pics of the temporary redo of cabs, and the ideas of what we hope to do this spring.

Main motivation:m we need to get new center island done before we can put in new floors!